Florida Agricultural And Mechanical University

This document outlines the 2025-2026 Goals Framework for Famu, detailing President Johnson's objectives. The plan's primary focus areas include enhancing student success and experience, ensuring fiscal accountability, strengthening brand, reputation, and community engagement, optimizing organizational management, talent, and culture, and driving operational excellence. These goals aim to improve academic outcomes, achieve R1 status, grow enterprise revenue, ensure clean audits, build reputation, and foster an accountable and efficient environment.

The committee meeting addressed institutional accreditation, including the transition to the Higher Learning Commission. Discussions covered enrollment management plans for undergraduate and graduate programs, academic program prioritization, and textbook affordability. Additionally, the committee reviewed updates on post-tenure review audits and evaluated various options and implications for Performance Based Funding metric 10.

The committee meeting agenda included a presentation of the superintendent's update and a discussion regarding committee updates and future next steps.

The committee focused on organizing work teams to analyze data and prepare recommendations related to KPI metrics, governance, academic quality, staffing, and school performance. Key discussion topics included identifying necessary data for dashboard development, evaluating teacher evaluation and certification frameworks, reviewing student attendance and truancy patterns, exploring community and university partnerships, and coordinating with forthcoming external audit findings. Participants engaged in breakout sessions to refine work-team duties and establish a structure for reporting and data infrastructure.

The meeting focused on the University's 2028-2033 strategic planning cycle, detailing an 18-month timeline encompassing data assessment, framework development, community engagement, and implementation. Key discussion topics included the alignment of the strategic plan with presidential priorities such as student success and research growth, an overview of the State University System Performance-Based Funding model, and the implementation of a new institutional data governance and stewardship operating model. The committee also discussed the importance of incorporating feedback from external stakeholders, alumni, and regional partners into the planning process.